handholdless

Usually of a man: having never held hands with a member of the opposite sex.

We meet James, a "kissless, hugless, handholdless virgin" (or KHHV in incel parlance) from County Down, Northern Ireland, who says he's an incel because his insecurities, anxiety, mental health problems and troubled upbringing stood in the way of his ability to form relationships with women.

Lacking a handhold ("a projection that one may hold onto for support").

One false move and I'm down the slope on a mudslide, a gangly pebble in a debris flow, over a short, straight, handholdless twenty-foot drop into the flood, and whisked away into nothingness.